Back From The Dead…Of Sorts

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Okay so I had time to crunch a bunch of my audio and video from last week, and chop everything up into nice, digestible chunks. But then I didn’t have enough brain power to link to it and describe it all until I finished another project that was due today for school.
So that was today. Now I’ve got my life back for a couple days.
I know you’re all just hanging around waiting for the Alan Kay and Howard Rheingold and all the other goodies I promised from E-tech last week.
(Yeah, like, enough yappin’ already lady — kick with the video!)
Well I’ve got that and more — Daily Show Clips from last week and last night — the last week of news stories from other publications around the world that I was too busy to blog while E-teching — A video news clip of Lawrence Lessig and Zoe Lofgren talking about their new anti-spam bill on last night’s news…and….more….
My next deadline isn’t till Monday so I basically have the next 48 hours to catch up on everything else before things get ugly again school-wise.
Alright enough talk. Video on the way.

Links To Quicktime Players On Different Platforms

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Aaron Swartz was nice enough to download one of my files and test it on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
Here are links to the players that could run the files.
Thanks Aaron!!
The scoop:
Aaron downloaded http://www.lisarein.com/videos/tvclips/dailyapril2003/4-02-03-shilling-sm.mov and tested it:
Mac: Works in QuickTime.
Win: Should work in QuickTime and VLC
http://videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html.
Lin: Works in VLC
http://videolan.org/vlc/.

Yes I Did Get Alan Kay’s Etech Presentation!

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So the question of the day seems to be “did I get the incredible Alan Kay presentation that happened Thursday morning at Etech?”
Well yes I did, as a matter of fact 🙂
And yes, it WAS absolutely incredible (as you will soon be able to see for yourself)!
I was even able to capture both perspectives (Alice and the Bunny) during the VR demo, and get great close-ups (with direct sound) of all of the historical movies of past interfaces from the 60s!
It’s the first presentation I’ll be getting up later today!
(After Part Two and the Hi-res versions of Howard Rheingold’s Keynote go up.)

Help Out One Of My Fellow Graduate Students With Her Research

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Here’s a message from my friend Judith Holm:

JERRY SPRINGER VIEWERS NEEDED FOR RESEARCH
I am working with a professor at San Francisco State University on a research project on reality television. For now we need to find TV viewers who watch The Jerry Springer (TV) Show. Regular and occasional viewers are welcome. If you are (or if you know) a Springer viewer, PLEASE HELP by responding to or forwarding this. We will ask you to complete a short survey with just 10 questions.
As thanks for your participation we will send you a report of of findings.
If you have questions please contact me:
Judith Holm, judithaholm@earthlink.net

Bruce Springsteen Defends The Dixie Chicks

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Bruce Springsteen has spoken out in support of the Dixie Chicks!
And he did it using his blog (of sorts):
Bruce On The Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves. To me, they’re terrific American artists expressing American values by using their American right to free speech. For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American.
The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about – namely freedom. Right now, we are supposedly fighting to create freedom in Iraq, at the same time that some are trying to intimidate and punish people for using that same freedom here at home.
I don’t know what happens next, but I do want to add my voice to those who think that the Dixie Chicks are getting a raw deal, and an un-American one to boot. I send them my support.
Bruce Springsteen

Video – First Half Of Howard Rheingold’s Keynote At Emerging Technologies 2003

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I haven’t had a chance to post much this week because I’ve been at Oreilly’s Emerging Technology Conference.
So far I’ve recorded both keynotes (Howard Rheingold and Alan Kay), the bookmobile presentation by Brewster Khale and myself, Ben Hammersley, a DRM panel, a warblogging panel, and I’m about to grab Mitch Kapor talking about his newest software endeavor.
I lost my powercord early on in the conference and that has really cramped my already-impossible production schedule.
However, I did manage to get half of Howard Rheingold’s talk ready for viewing and uploaded.
I may get something else up tonight, but otherwise you’ll have to wait for the weekend for the goodies!

Half of Howard Rheingold’s Keynote At Emerging Technologies (Small – 30 MB)